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As news of the story broke, one of the first online reactions was from the so called, "mental health support", community [[Social Anxiety Support]] which spontaneously erupted in multiple threads of [[sympathy]] for Elliot Rodger, exclusively from male users. The [[femoid]] users of [[Social Anxiety Support]] then started flaming the threads in disgust at the reaction. | As news of the story broke, one of the first online reactions was from the so called, "mental health support", community [[Social Anxiety Support]] which spontaneously erupted in multiple threads of [[sympathy]] for Elliot Rodger, exclusively from male users. The [[femoid]] users of [[Social Anxiety Support]] then started flaming the threads in disgust at the reaction. | ||
== | ==Reflection of normies' views rather than a reflection of inceldom== | ||
[[Rebecca]], a lesbian, former admin of [[IncelSupport]] thinks that Rodger was more a product of people's attitudes towards incels, rather than him being a reflection of incels. In other words, Rodger built his persona off of people's (highly-negative) opinion of incels. [[Alek Minassian]] was also arguably a reflection of how people see incels, rather than him being a reflection of something inherent about inceldom itself. Rebecca also tried to point out how cherrypicking violent celibates does not mean that inceldom is born from evil, as many (if not most) evil people have partners. According to [[Rebecca]]: | |||
{{Quote|"Rodger just fed into what everyone really wants to believe about incels. Even in circles where the word 'incel' is not known, someone who does not attract others sexually is the butt of jokes. S/he will not be taken seriously and will be considered incapable of everything else, too. [...] [Incels] are not perceived as sexual beings. If they display even appropriate sexual behaviour, it makes others inexplicably uncomfortable.[...] | {{Quote|"Rodger just fed into what everyone really wants to believe about incels. Even in circles where the word 'incel' is not known, someone who does not attract others sexually is the butt of jokes. S/he will not be taken seriously and will be considered incapable of everything else, too. [...] [Incels] are not perceived as sexual beings. If they display even appropriate sexual behaviour, it makes others inexplicably uncomfortable.[...] | ||